Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:20:32 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
        Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>, lee@kernel.org,
        eric@anholt.net, f.fainelli@gmail.com, rjui@broadcom.com,
        sbranden@broadcom.com, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: outreachy
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Hi!

> > > Hah!  That's the joy of being a maintainer of a driver in staging.  E=
ven
> > > if you filter out outreachy, you are going to get a lot of "basic
> > > mistakes" and other type patches cc:ed to you.
> > >
> > > I strongly suggest, that if you all don't like this type of stuff,
> > > either:
> > > 	- work to get the code out of staging as soon as possible (i.e.
> > > 	  send me coding style fixes for everything right now, and then
> > > 	  fix up the rest of the stuff.)
> > > 	- take yourself off the maintainer list for this code.
> > >
> > > It's your choice, outreachy right now is a lot of patches, but again,
> > > it's not going to keep you from getting the "basic" stuff sent to you
> > > in ways that is totally wrong.
> >
> > Could we get these trivial patches off the lkml? Yes, lkml already has
> > a lot of traffic, but no, this is not useful :-(.
>=20
> The outreachy instructions say to use the -nol argument to
> get_maintainers, which would prevent them from being sent to any mailing
> list.  However others thought that all patches should be sent to mailing
> lists, and so I haven't enforced anything for people who have omitted
> -nol.  However I have tried to remove bcm maintainers from CC lists on
> replies and reminded people not to send you patches,

Wonderful :-(.

Can we at least make  those people put the word "outreachy" in the
subject so the emails are easier to delete?
									Pavel
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